Full Freeview on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter which serves 280,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast?
The Wrekin transmitter - The Wrekin transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the The Wrekin transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the The Wrekin transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 49km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 27 Feb 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C30 | -BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C33 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the The Wrekin transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldMonday, 9 October 2023
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Chris.SE1:09 AM
Ed:
Whatever the cause turns out to be, "the thing to stress" is that reception was ok until sometime after receiving the postcard if in the unlikely event that the engineer being a trifle pernickety !!
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023
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Karen10:00 AM
Whitchurch
SY13 1RG Whitchurch Shropshire Roof aerial.
TV saying programmes not tuned and mass pixelling.
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Karen's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE3:33 PM
Karen:
I'm afraid it's down to current weather conditions -
They have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia, now currently affecting Wales and England. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you'd be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter, as detailed in the top section of this page.
The BBC and Freeview have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - from 07 October | Help receiving TV and radio
High pressure could affect reception across parts of the UK this week | Freeview
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Friday, 13 October 2023
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Ed4:07 PM
It's fixed.
The problem was the Fringe Electronics P1285-2 power unit. It was boosting the signal but not in a constant/stable way. When he looked at the Freeview signals on his display they were fluctutating quite a bit. A guess my TV wasn't sensitive enough to capture these fluctuations as it showed a constant 100% power.
He fitted a new power unit but also noticed a strong mobile signal in the range above the Freeview frequencies, which he thought could be a problem in future if ever that mobile signal was boosted. So he also fitted a filter to the aerial box in my loft to strip out mobile frequencies.
The only issue with the new power unit is that it only has one output and has a different socket. The one output isn't an issue for now as I only use that box to feed a dab stereo. There is radio aerial fitted to the roof along with the TV aerial. I use other aerial sockets to feed my televisions. I can either buy an adapter so I can plug my stereo lead into the new box, or I could buy and fit a new power unit identical to the P1285-2. I think I'll just use an adapter on the single output socket for now.
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Chris.SE4:12 PM
Ed:
Glad you've found the source of the problem. Hope everything now remains stable.
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Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Hi any news on the Wrekins repairs this week HD channels gone again
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Chris.SE8:20 PM
Paul:
Hi Paul. Planned Engineering isn't necessarily repairs mind, in most cases it will be maintenance, some which could be rather essential to ensure reliability through the winter etc.
I've checked and there haven't been any reported faults, so it may be simply that the HD mux is on the Reserve Antenna which is lower down the mast which isn't helpful when you are further away.
Other than that no detail of course, Arqiva never provide any!
As we've had some abysmal weather, do remember to check your aerial is still pointing correctly and that your coax downlead isn't full of water!
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Thursday, 2 November 2023
Hi thanks I didn't realise there was such a thing as a reserve transmitter!
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